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Reading Wind

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Reading Wind

by Carol Barrett

—our Third Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2023, chosen by editor, Shawn Aveningo Sanders, is a beautiful tribute to a father, written in a daughter’s favorite language—poetry. These poems celebrate the life of the author’s father—a rural physician, accomplished musician, and man who was one with the earth—and take the reader on an imagery-rich journey of mourning and healing.

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Inside Out

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Inside Out

by Kirsten Morgan

is our Second Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2023, chosen by editor, Shawn Aveningo Sanders.

John Brehm calls it “a powerful work of empathic imagination…searing poems of witness…” These poetic observations derive  from years of volunteer work, both at a homeless clinic and a women’s day shelter

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The Squannacook at Dawn

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The Squannacook at Dawn

by Richard Jordan

is our First Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2023, chosen by contest judge, Andrea Hollander.

The poems in The Squannacook at Daw are linked by the speaker’s experiences with water and revolve around fishing, and explore the speaker’s relationship with the loss of his father, the peace of the natural world, aging, environmental change, and spirituality.

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It’s a Crooked Road, but Not Far, to the House of Flowers

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It’s a Crooked Road, but Not Far, to the House of Flowers

by Wendy Erd

—These poems crisscross the Pacific: from an elegy for a forest in Alaska to a magical wish for those living on the streets of Saigon. Time lives differently in this work. Poems layer details of the human and natural world with the heart tugging awareness of the ephemeral nature of all things. Within that tender beauty, these poems offer the possibility of transformation. An unfathomable radiance moves through us/ we are more of this world than we know, and less.

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Jump Straight Up

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Jump Straight Up

by Jarold Ramsey

—Rushing in as a welcome surprise, these “new late poems” were composed both late in the year and late in the author’s years. In Jump Straight Up, Jarold Ramsey versifies and pokes at an odd knot of themes:  encroaching age overtaking a long wonderful marriage; the delights of grandparenthood; awareness of our “interspecies” situation in the everyday natural order; the blessings and challenges of my ancestral “land of heart’s desire,” Central Oregon’s canyons, summits, and rangelands; and the intriguing ways the mostly horizontal left-to-right axis of our lives seems to shift in old age toward the vertical—“way down” (and out) but also “jump straight up” (in the imagination).

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The Hills Around Are Dust and Light

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by Karen Gookin

—These poems sketch a portrait of the author’s growing-up years in Montana surrounded by her wheat-farming father, a busy at-home mother, two older siblings, and a lonely grandmother. Moments of strife and stress return, but here you will also find joy and a great deal of love and gratitude for each other, for hard work, for the mystery of faith, for the land, and for what the land has endured. Her poems become the embodiment of memories—from eating brown sugar sandwiches, to skipping rocks on a Glacier Park lake, to wandering through dreams and the afterlife—as they offer family stories, tragedies, speculation, and attempts to understand it all.

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The Poeming Pigeon, #13

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front cover of The Poeming Pigeon, issue #13, designed by Robert R. Sanders featuring cover art by Beverly Ash Gilbert

The “Superstition” issue of The Poeming Pigeon: A Journal of Poetry & Art (Issue #13) is 162 pages featuring poetry by Ellen Bass, James Crews, Andrea Hollander, and Paulann Petersen plus poetry and artwork by 76 poets & artists from around the globe.

Cover Design by Robert R. Sanders, featuring art “Prowling After Midnight” by artist Beverly Ash Gilbert of Gig Harbor, Washington.

Contributing Artists:

Beverly Ash Gilbert • Carella Keil • Dale Champlin • Elaine Franz Witten • Estelle Meadoff • Jan Baross • Jeanne Julian • Jone Rush MacCulloch • Judith Skillman • Linda Briskin • Pattie Palmer-Baker • Robert R. Sanders • Romana Tarlamis

Contributing Poets:

Jan Ball • K.S. Baron • Jan Baross • Ellen Bass • Jenny Blackford • Rose Mary Boehm • Katy Brown • Paul Bufis • Dale Champlin • Jennifer Clark • Daphne Clifton • James Crews • Steven Dieffenbacher • Susan Donnelly • Ann Farley • Laurel Feigenbaum • Linda Ferguson • Eric J. Forsbergh • Sylvia Freeman • Gabby Gilliam • Tony Gloeggler • Peter M. Gordon • Melanie Green • Jan Haag • Catherine Hamrick • Leslie Hodge • Andrea Hollander • Christopher J. Jarmick • DB Jonas • Tim Kahl • Casey Killingsworth • Tricia Knoll • Sigrun Susan Lane • Abigail Licad • Jone Rush MacCulloch • Carolyn Martin • Joy McDowell • Matt McGee • Hannah Mead • Jessica Mehta • James Merrill • Judith Montgomery • Susan Woods Morse • Charlene Stegman Moskal • Kathy Nelson • MaryJane Nordgren • Francis Opila • Paulann Petersen • Vivienne Popperl • Jeannie E. Roberts • John Rowe • Robert R. Sanders • Shawn Aveningo Sanders • Joel Savishinsky • JoAnna Scandiffio • Penelope Scambly Schott • Allegra Jostad Silberstein • Ona Siporin • Amy Smith • Doug Stone • Shawn Dallas Stradley • Colette Tennant • Michael Waterson • Julia Wendell • Ingrid Wendt • Melody Wilson • Sally Zakariya